I think every formation opinion is entitled. Even the most inadequate or delirious.
But I can’t understand why everyone is so critical and abusive about the greatest and the simplest of all formations: 4-4-2.
Fans say that it’s last century, we’ve moved on from this; pundits say that it’s rigid and easy to break down as you lack a man in the middle and play with two banks of four, straight lines.
Hell, even my neighbour who’s never been to a stadium or watched a game on telly and only plays football on his PC, when challenging me to a game of PES (which I had neve...